What we publish, and what we do not
Most contractor websites open with a row of badges: years in business, a licence number, insured and bonded, a warranty in large type. We have not published any of those, and the reason is simple — nothing goes on this site that cannot be checked.
That is a deliberate choice rather than an oversight, and it cuts against us in the short term. A visitor comparing three sites will find numbers on the other two. What we would rather you do is ask all three of us for the same things in writing, because a claim typed into a web page costs nothing and a document does not.
There is no Texas drywall licence to hold
This one is worth knowing before you compare anybody. Texas does not license drywall contractors as a trade. There is no state licence number for this work — not for us, not for the company down the road. So a drywall contractor advertising that they are "licensed" is either referring to something else entirely, such as a general contractor registration in a particular city, or they are counting on the word doing work it has not earned.
Asbestos is the genuine exception and it is a separate regime. Work that disturbs asbestos-containing material is regulated by the Texas Department of State Health Services under the Texas Asbestos Health Protection Rules, and that matters directly here because sprayed ceiling texture from before 1980 frequently contains it. Our position on that is on the ceiling testing guide: the ceiling gets sampled before anything is scraped, and if a sample comes back positive the removal is licensed abatement work rather than a drywall job, and it gets referred accordingly.
What to ask any contractor for instead
Since the licence question is a dead end in this trade, here is what actually tells you something:
- A certificate of insurance, sent directly from the insurer or the agent. Not a photograph of one, and not a line on a website. A current certificate names the carrier, the policy period and the limits.
- Who is physically doing the work. Whether it is the person quoting, an employed crew, or a subcontractor. All three are legitimate; not knowing which is not.
- What happens if it cracks again. Ask for the answer in writing before work starts, whatever that answer is. A contractor who explains why a movement crack may reopen is telling you more than one who promises it never will.
- An itemised estimate. Repair, texture, primer and paint as separate lines. That is also how you spot which competing bid has quietly left the priming out, because an unprimed patch is the most common reason a good repair looks bad afterwards.
- For a pre-1980 ceiling, what happens about testing. If the answer is that testing is unnecessary, get a second opinion.
How we quote
On site. Not over the phone, and not from a photograph alone, because the question that decides the job is what caused the damage rather than how big it is. A doorknob hole is a doorknob hole. A diagonal crack running from the corner of a door frame is the house telling you something, and repairing it as though it were the first kind means doing it again next year.
Cost figures published anywhere on this site are industry bands collected from competitor pricing and national references. They are there so you can plan and so you can sanity-check a bid you already have. None of them is our price, and we would rather say that plainly than let a range do work a quote should do.
Where we work
Conroe outward across Montgomery County, into Harris County down the San Jacinto corridor, up to Walker County around Huntsville and east into Liberty County. The practical limit is the return trip rather than the mileage: a proper repair means three coats with cure time between them, so past a certain drive it stops being schedulable honestly. If you are past it we will say so and point you somewhere closer.